‘cárcamo expandido’ is a material exploration of water: a journey through its metamorphic, multi-scalar, and political nature. made in collaboration with bernal pérez.

to begin with, the cárcamo de dolores museum serves as a gateway to the expanded geography that makes up the intricate web of ecosystems and infrastructure sustaining the water supply in the mexico city metropolitan area: watersheds protected by highly threatened forests, dams that fluctuate in the face of intensifying droughts, networks of pipes that transport water over more than 300 km, and wells that extract the resource from a subsoil worn down by decades of use.
in this space, the work invites us to imagine water beyond its conventional form as a liquid; it proposes visualising it as a network and a system, as hybrid, vegetal and more-than-human bodies, as imperfect infrastructures and abstract legal systems.

through four textile pieces, the exhibition brings together these multiple facets by combining technologies based on contrasting approaches: satellite analysis via remote sensing and the manual craft of embroidery and weaving.

in doing so, 'cárcamo expandido' constructs a decelerated space in which the body and the human scale encounter the artificial, disembodied viewpoint of the satellite. an invitation to construct a partial, specific and sensitive gaze that sustains this exercise in re-signification.

'cárcamo expandido' is a textile and cartographic work conceived by giorgia chiarion and bernal pérez for 'aqüifera: festival del bosque de chapultepec'. its realisation was supported by the british council, the cárcamo museum in dolores and el bosque de chapultepec.

the project was realised between january and march 2026 in mexico city by giorgia chiarion, luz ramírez, susana ramírez, carmela ramírez, guadalupe de ramírez, natalia berzunza and dalzell román. the cartographic and remote sensing research was carried out by bernal pérez. the installation and assembly of the piece was carried out by santiago esquivel. paulina escobar was responsible for the photographic documentation. institutional coordination was handled by lucía enríquez with the support of leonardo viguri and the entire team at the cárcamo de dolores museum.

special thanks to karla niño de rivera, ruth best, david romero, fernanda seoane, moa bell, raúl aguilar, caroline husson and lily seckendorf.